The engine "node" is incompatible with this module

I am getting below yarn error when deploying to AWS

error fs-extra@7.0.1: The engine "node" is incompatible with this module. Expected version ">=6 <7 || >=8". Got "7.0.0" 

Any idea how will this be resolved?

Will this work out if I specify engine in package.json

{ "engines" : { "node" : ">=8.0.0" } } 

14 Answers

You can try to ignore the engines :

$ yarn install --ignore-engines

OR

$ yarn global add <your app> --ignore-engines

You can see all what you can ignore by running:

$ yarn help | grep -- --ignore --ignore-scripts don't run lifecycle scripts --ignore-platform ignore platform checks --ignore-engines ignore engines check --ignore-optional ignore optional dependencies 

You need to upgrade your version of node.

I ran into this same issue.

If you used Homebrew run:

brew update # This updates Homebrew to latest version brew upgrade node 

If you use nvm run:

nvm current node -v # Checks your current version nvm install <version> # Example: nvm install 12.14.1 

For the above step go to

Grab a version which satisfies the conditionals in your error, the latest version should work.

More Detailed Walkthrough:

A fix that is a hack can be

yarn config set ignore-engines true 

However if you want a permanent solution is to :

1. delete node_modules/, package-lock.json & yarn.lock
2. run yarn install or npm i again.

Add --ignore-engines to the suffix while installing the package like this:

yarn add <package_name> --ignore-engines

My problem was solved with yarn --ignore-engines, but I'm not sure why and how.

I had a similar issue on Ubuntu even after installing Nodejs many times with the latest version, it was showing always the same old Nodejs version; I discovered it was installing the similar old Debian package each time, even after executing the apt-get update command

Finally, I got it to work by purging the old nodeJs then adding different repository source, and installing nodeJs normally with the new distribution as follows:

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove nodejs curl -fsSL | sudo -E bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs 

Please find the list of all NodeJs distribution below

You may find other ways of doing the update, but this one worked for me.

You can try:

1. Open you package.json
2. find "engines": { "node": "14.x" }
3. change 14.x -> >=14.x

What worked for me was to update Node to the latest version. Following any tutorial depending on your OS.

Upgrading Node.js to latest version

I recommend doing what the error message says and checking your Node.js version (node -v). The easiest way to upgrade Node.js is with the n version manager:

$ npm install -g n 

Then install the latest (n latest) or LTS (n lts) version of Node.

sudo npm cache clean -f sudo npm install -g n sudo n 10.22.1 node -v => Should be on 10.22.1 

type what version of node you require as I have just put 10.22.1 as an example

I do NOT recommend using this:

% yarn install --ignore-engines 

It avoids the issue instead of solving it.
A possible solution would be to update your node to version > 8.0.

% brew upgrade node 

Or you could try installing multiple versions of node by using nodenv, in case you need them for other projects.

% brew install nodenv % nodenv init # Load nodenv automatically by appending # the following to ~/.zshrc: eval "$(nodenv init -)" % nodenv install 6.0.0 //or some other version 

I found this problem now, with an old code, however, I solved it with: yarn upgrade

Just found that not only I need to upgrade the node, but also need to install it.

This upgrades node to latest version:

brew upgrade node 

This install the specific version of node:

nvm install 17.0.0 

Update your Node.js to the latest version.